I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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